PAUL FOX 4TH FG, 334TH FS - PART 3

BE SURE TO SEE PART 1, 2 & 4 FOR MORE ON THE PAUL FOX COLLECTION; MR. TETTLEY'S TENANTS, BOTH BOOKS TITLED, "WAR EAGLES" ALSO FLAK MAP'S, B&W SQUADRON PHOTOS, TRAINING CAMP BOOKLETS AND SO MUCH MORE!!

ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II FLAK MAPS

S/SGT PAUL G. "TONY" FOX BROUGHT BACK WITH HIM AFTER WORLD WAR II SIX (6) BEAUTIFUL & WELL PRESERVED FLAK MAPS, ALL HIGHLY DETAILED IN COLOR. THESE 6 MAPS CAN BE CONNECTED TOGETHER. THE FLAK MAPS ARE FOR; BERLIN, BREMEN, FRANKFURT, STRASBOURG, MUNCHEN, & LEIPZIG. I HAVE SEARCHED THE INTERNET AND HAVE NOT SEEN ONE OF THESE TYPE OF MAPS AVAILABLE ANYWHERE. ALL THESE MAPS CAME FROM THE 334TH FIGHTER SQUADRON OF THE 4TH FIGHTER GROUP. EACH MAP MEASURES 28 1/2"w X 23" h. I'M SURE THESE SAME MAPS WERE USED BY ALL THE BOMBER GROUP'S AS WELL!! EACH MAP IS PRICED INDIVIDUALLY.

AS GERMAN DEFENSES BECAME MORE COMPLEX IN RESPONSE TO THE BOMBING CAMPAIGN, EIGHTH'S A-2 WORKED CLOSELY WITH OTHER AGENCIES, INCLUDING THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY DEPARTMENT, TO PRODUCE "FLAK MAPS". THESE MAPS PROVIDED THE KNOWN LOCATIONS OF AA ARTILLERY BATTERIES, SEARCHLIGHTS, BALLOONS, SMOKE SCREENS, DECOYS, AND SEARCH AND CONTROL RADARS. THIS INFORMATION IS FROM THE BOOK: Piercing the Fog: Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War 2. Personal Author(s) : John F. Kreis, Alexander S. Cochran, Jr., Robert C. Ehrhart, Thomas A. Fabyanic, Robert F. Futrell, Murray Williamson.

FRANKFURT FLAK MAP, AS YOU CAN SEE BY THE PRINTED INFO THAT THERE HAS BEEN DIFFERENT EDITIONS, AMENDMENTS AND UPDATES MADE SINCE THE ORIGINAL MAP WAS PRODUCED IN 1940. (3 PIX) OTHER CITIES; DUSSELDORF, OBERHAUSEN, MUNSTER, RHEINE, KOBLENZ, SCHWEINFURT, KASSEL, HAMM. $190.00

NOTICE THE CITY BASTOGNE IN THIS PIX & ALL THE FLAK ZONES IN ABOVE PIX. THE CLOSER TO ENGLAND THE MORE CONCENTRATED THE FLAK ZONES ARE.

LEIPZIG FLAK MAP (3 PIX) OTHER CITIES; BRAUNSCHWEIG, MAGDEBURG, MERSEBURG, DRESDEN (Kurt Vonnegut's experience as a soldier and prisoner of war had a profound influence on his later work. As a colonel with the 106th InfantryDivision, Vonnegut was cut off from his battalion and wandered alone behind enemy lines for several days until captured by Wehrmacht troops on December 14, 1944. Imprisoned in Dresden, Vonnegut witnessed the February 13âFebruary 14, 1945bombingof Dresden, which destroyed most of the city. Vonnegut was one of just seven American prisoners of war in Dresden to survive, in their cell in an underground meat locker of a plant known as Schlachthof FÃ¼nf (SlaughterhouseFive). "Utter destruction", he recalled, "carnage unfathomable." The Germans put him to work gathering bodies for mass burial. "But there were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Nazis sent in troops with flamethrowers. All these civilians' remains were burned to ashes." This experience formed the core of one of his most famous works, Slaughterhouse-Five, and is a theme in at least six other books) $190.00